Editing Grey alien (section)

==Analysis==

===In close encounter claims and ufology===
Greys are often involved in alien abduction claims. Among reports of alien encounters, Greys make up about 50% in Australia, 73% in the United States, 48% in [[continental Europe]], and around 12% in the United Kingdom.<ref name="cdbb-ce4k-1995">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/closeencounterso00brya_0|title=Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T.|last=Bryan|first=C. D. B.|publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf, Inc]]|year=1995|isbn=978-0-679-42975-3|edition=First|location=NY, US|oclc=32390030|quote=This work is based on the author's experience of a five-day UFO conference at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].|author-link=C. D. B. Bryan|url-access=registration|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}{{Page needed|date=June 2015}}</ref>{{Rp|68}} These reports include two distinct groups of Greys that differ in height.<ref name="cdbb-ce4k-1995" />{{Rp|74}}<ref name="AliensAndHybrids" />

Abduction claims are often described as extremely [[psychological trauma|traumatic]], similar to an abduction by humans or even a [[sexual assault]] in the level of trauma and distress. The emotional impact of perceived abductions can be as great as that of [[combat]], [[sexual abuse]], and other traumatic events.<ref>
    1. McNally RJ, Lasko NB, Clancy SA, Macklin ML, Pitman RK, Orr SP. Psychophysiological Responding During Script-Driven Imagery in People Reporting Abduction by Space Aliens. Psychological Science. 2004;15(7):493-497. doi:10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00707.x</ref>

The eyes are often a focus of abduction claims, which often describe a Grey staring into the eyes of an abductee when conducting mental procedures.<ref name="AliensAndHybrids" /> This staring is claimed to induce [[hallucinogenic]] states or directly provoke different emotions.<ref name="subsequent">Jacobs, David M. "Subsequent Procedures." In: Pritchard, Andrea & Pritchard, David E. & Mack, John E. & Kasey, Pam & Yapp, Claudia. ''Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference''. Cambridge: North Cambridge Press. pp. 64–68.</ref>

===Psychocultural expression of intelligence===
[[Neurology|Neurologist]] [[Steven Novella]] proposes that Grey aliens are a byproduct of the human imagination, with the Greys' most distinctive features representing everything that modern humans traditionally link with intelligence. "The aliens, however, do not just appear as humans, they appear like humans with those traits we psychologically associate with intelligence."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Novella |first=Dr. Steven |title=UFOs: The Psychocultural Hypothesis |publisher=The New England Skeptical Society |date=October 2000 |url=http://www.theness.com/ufos-the-psychocultural-hypothesis/ |access-date=2010-02-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915203009/http://www.theness.com/ufos-the-psychocultural-hypothesis/ |archive-date=15 September 2010 }}</ref>

===The "Mother Hypothesis"===
In 2005, Frederick V. Malmstrom, writing in ''[[Skeptic (U.S. magazine)|Skeptic]]'' magazine, volume 11, issue 4, presents his idea that Greys are actually residual memories of early childhood development. Malmstrom reconstructs the face of a Grey through transformation of a mother's face based on our best understanding of early-childhood sensation and perception. Malmstrom's study offers another alternative to the existence of Greys, the intense instinctive response many people experience when presented an image of a Grey, and the act of regression [[hypnosis]] and [[recovered-memory therapy]] in "recovering" memories of alien abduction experiences, along with their common themes.<ref>{{Cite web| last = Malmstrom|first = Frederick| title = Close Encounters of the Facial Kind: Are UFO Alien Faces an Inborn Facial Recognition Template?|magazine=[[Skeptic (U.S. magazine)|Skeptic]]|publisher=[[The Skeptics Society]]|date=2005|url = http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v11n4_alien_faces.html| access-date = 2008-09-18}}</ref>

===Evolutionary implausibility===
According to biologist [[Jack Cohen (scientist)|Jack Cohen]], the typical image of a Grey, assuming that it would have evolved from a world with different environmental and ecological conditions from Earth, is too physiologically similar to a human to be credible as a representation of an alien.<ref name="CohenStewart2002">{{cite book|author1=Jack Cohen|author2=Ian Stewart|title=Evolving the Alien|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzMdNQAACAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Ebury Press|isbn=978-0-09-187927-3}}</ref>

===Other hypotheses===
The [[interdimensional hypothesis]], the [[cryptoterrestrial hypothesis]], and the [[Time-traveler_UFO_hypothesis|time-traveller hypothesis]] attempt to provide an alternative explanation to the humanoid anatomy and behavior of these alleged beings.